Some Well-Connected Movies
The Day After Tomorrow

Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
2004
Jake Gyllenhaal
actor
Brokeback Mountain

The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
2005
Jake Gyllenhaal
actor
Stealth

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.
2005
Jamie Foxx
actor
The Skeleton Key

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
2005
Peter Sarsgaard
actor
Flightplan

A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.
2005
Peter Sarsgaard
actor
Road to Perdition

Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living.
2002
Sam Mendes
director
Cast Away

A FedEx executive must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a deserted island.
2000
William Broyles Jr.
writer
Jarhead
A psychological study of operations desert shield and desert storm during the gulf war; through the eyes of a U.S marine sniper who struggles to cope with the possibility his girlfriend may be cheating on him back home.
2005
Jake Gyllenhaal
actor
Jamie Foxx
actor
Peter Sarsgaard
actor
Sam Mendes
director
William Broyles Jr.
writer
Dreamgirls

A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
2006
Jamie Foxx
actor
Revolutionary Road

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
2008
Sam Mendes
director
Flags of our Fathers

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
2006
William Broyles Jr.
writer